U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Earthquake Resistant Design of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints/May 1989/Honolulu, HI

该奖项将资助一个名为“钢筋混凝土梁柱节点的抗震设计”的研讨会，该研讨会由美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的James O. Jirsa教授和日本东京大学的Hiroyuki Aoyama教授联合举办。与会者将于1989年5月24日至26日在夏威夷檀香山举行会议，报告美国和日本正在进行的研究项目的结果，并讨论这些结果对结构设计的影响。在这次会议上，除了纯粹的地震研究人员外，还邀请了结构设计师，以促进结论快速转化为实践，并协助评估研究数据。该研讨会将汇集美国和日本该领域的研究人员，以及来自两国和新西兰的一些观察员。因此，有来自在这一领域作出最大努力的国家，即美国、日本和新西兰的参加者参加的先前几次联合讨论会可以继续下去。这次研讨会将集中讨论以前很少考虑的梁-柱连接问题，因此，对于协助快速开发和利用抗震钢筋混凝土结构技术将是重要的。

This award will support a seminar, "Earthquake Resistant Design of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints," organized jointly by Prof. James O. Jirsa of the University of Texas, Austin, and Prof. Hiroyuki Aoyama of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Participants will meet in Honolulu, Hawaii, from May 24 to 26, 1989, to report results of research programs under way in both the U.S. and Japan, and to discuss the implications of those results to the design of structures. In this meeting structure designers have been invited in addition to pure earthquake researchers, in order to facilitate rapid transfer of conclusions into practice, and to assist in the evaluation of research data. The seminar will bring together researchers in the field from the U.S. and Japan, with some observers from both countries and from New Zealand. Thus, continuity with several earlier joint seminars involving participants from those countries with the strongest efforts in the field, viz. the U.S., Japan, and New Zealand, is assured. This seminar will concentrate on the previously little-con- sidered problem of beam-to-column connections, and will be important, therefore, in assisting the rapid development and utilization of techniques for earthquake resistant, reinforced-concrete construction.